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GODMAN, Frederick Du Cane (1834-1919). A Monograph of the Petrels (Order Tubinares). London: Witherby & Co., 1907-1910.
4° (328 x 246mm). Half-title, title printed in red and black, limitation statement on verso, dedication, errata on verso, contents, 106 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES by J.G. Keulemans and H. Grönvold, on guards. (Occasional very light marginal finger-soiling.) Contemporary dark-brown half morocco, spine gilt in six compartments, lettered in two, t.e.g, bottome and foredges uncut, original printed wrappers bound in (spine slightly faded, extremities a little rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 225 COPIES of which this is number 105. The work was issued in five parts between December 1907 and May 1910, and discusses 122 species, of which 104 are illustrated. The plates were apparently coloured by Richard Bowdler Sharpe's daughters. Although Godman's is the only name to appear on the title page, the work was actually a shared project. The initial idea was Osbert Salvin's, who was inspired by the work he did on petrels for volume XXV of the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum. He was responsible for the preparation of some forty of the plates, and after his death, Godman took over the work, assisted by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, completing it along the lines which Salvin had laid down. Zimmer p. 248; Nissen IVB 356; Anker 163.
4° (328 x 246mm). Half-title, title printed in red and black, limitation statement on verso, dedication, errata on verso, contents, 106 HAND-COLOURED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES by J.G. Keulemans and H. Grönvold, on guards. (Occasional very light marginal finger-soiling.) Contemporary dark-brown half morocco, spine gilt in six compartments, lettered in two, t.e.g, bottome and foredges uncut, original printed wrappers bound in (spine slightly faded, extremities a little rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 225 COPIES of which this is number 105. The work was issued in five parts between December 1907 and May 1910, and discusses 122 species, of which 104 are illustrated. The plates were apparently coloured by Richard Bowdler Sharpe's daughters. Although Godman's is the only name to appear on the title page, the work was actually a shared project. The initial idea was Osbert Salvin's, who was inspired by the work he did on petrels for volume XXV of the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum. He was responsible for the preparation of some forty of the plates, and after his death, Godman took over the work, assisted by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, completing it along the lines which Salvin had laid down. Zimmer p. 248; Nissen IVB 356; Anker 163.